Double, The

A dark, captivating, creative, odd, well-acted, star-studded (Cathy Moriarty, Sally Hawkins, Chris O'Dowd, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor, Rade Serbedzija, and Yasmin Paige), 93-minute comedy based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella in which the mundane, regimented life of an introverted, shy, officer clerk (Jesse Eisenberg), who is trapped in a stifling, unsatisfying government job, is turned upside down when he meets his identical, charismatic, doppelganger twin whose personality is his polar opposite and finds his new coworker flirting with the woman (Mia Wasikowska) he loves and brown-nosing up to his clueless boss (Wallace Shawn) and the mysterious company leader (James Fox).
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